gonvaled

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by gonvaled 13y ago
Not trusting anybody / anything does not mean that you can not risk a relationship. It's a cost/benefit analysis. In the case of MtGox, a libertarian would trust it with a small percent of their holdings, no more. Because a l
872.
by gonvaled 13y ago
You got this backwards: just transfer the bitcoins to your private wallet, and you have no need whatsoever for regulation. People keeping their bitcoins in online wallets are trusting MtGox et al. A libertarian trusts nobody but himself -
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by gonvaled 13y ago
Honest question: why are people using online wallets to keep big amount of bitcoins? Isn't it risky per-se? And just to make sure I understand this: a personal wallet (in a USB, my laptop, my dropbox, whatever), would not be susceptibl
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by gonvaled 13y ago
So now am I supposed to give my passwords for my encrypted bitcoin wallets, and all my banking access codes? And be happy and relaxed when the police tells me that they will not steal anything?
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by gonvaled 13y ago
It is not only from a theoretical standpoint: rules get broken, whenever it seems convenient, there are resources to break them, and there is an advantage to be obtained to break them. From an outside observer, the rules get broken randomly
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by gonvaled 13y ago
Previously the story was "the chinese are inserting backdoors". Afterwards the story was, the NSA is spying everyone. Now the story seems to be that the NSA is spying and planting some backdoors. How many? 1% of devices? 10%? 99
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by gonvaled 13y ago
Isightful. And the follow-up question is: since the military industrial complex has probably already reached this conclussion, will they force war? I mean, in a more direct way than what we are used to ... In this light, trusting the USA to
878.
by gonvaled 13y ago
The NSA is planting exploits. It is not only exploiting existing security holes: it is creating new security holes, by manipulating the hardware. Is is effectively working together with Cisco / any other company (maybe not willingly,
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by gonvaled 13y ago
In the U.S., military espionage is heroic and economic espionage is a crime. In China, the line is not that clear. Let me say this: BULLSHIT, a thousand times. Who says this? Any of the companies who have been lying to their custome
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by gonvaled 13y ago
Are you aware that the NSA is actively planting exploits into products by intercepting shipments? Your are not buying a Cisco product: you are buying a Cisco + NSA product, with a backdoor. Which is exactly the same as buying a Huawei produ
881.
by gonvaled 13y ago
I think MS in particular will only integrate Dart if they are forced to. And they will be forced if: 1. developers start using Dart as alternative 2. performance of the Dart VM greatly exceeds performance of JS But you are right, choice i
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by gonvaled 13y ago
Right. That is something than can be built on top of bitcoin, bringing traditional banking services to it. If the problem is managing your private keys, that can be delegated to a bank that you can trust - which will recover them for you in
883.
by gonvaled 13y ago
I guess the problem is the same as with real wallets: you need two! One for convenient, day-to-day use: you do not worry too much if this gets lost or stolen. And another to keep your millions. You can bury it, put it in a safe, or keep it
884.
by gonvaled 13y ago
Does this mean MS must pay back royalties? To whom?
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by gonvaled 13y ago
It has nothing to do about articulating the ideas of capitalism. Capitalism exists whether or not we articulate it , the same way that the Andromeda Galaxy existed before we saw it in our telescopes. My point is that human nature seems to b
886.
by gonvaled 13y ago
I am not suggesting that capitalism is not the economic system most suited for human nature: it probably is (at least more suited than communism, if we accept that the theory of evolution can be applied to historical processes, and thus cap
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by gonvaled 13y ago
Great reading! Things could of course play out like this but, since we have no really no clue, aiming for the stars is the most exciting alternative. The biggest mistake we could be making right now is to waste the current free oil reserves
888.
by gonvaled 13y ago
Linkbait title. The results are listed as Shanghai's results. If people are misinterpreting them as China's results, that is people's fault. In this case, Time's fault. The truth is that China is not cheating and Time is
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by gonvaled 13y ago
I used to read the Economist, and I was very much under the impression that they were champions of objectivity, and that they provided a very critical and unique point of view. Nothing further from the truth: they also have an agenda, so th
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by gonvaled 13y ago
In front of you there is a glass of water. You see it, you can touch it, you can drink it. You know it is there. You believe it is there. You are wrong! In fact, the water does not exist, the glass does not exist. You do not exist. Could
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by gonvaled 13y ago
That would be fair, to be sure - or, to be precise, as fair as playing any other table in the casino. The dealer can still be cheating, but doing that in the open does not raise any further suspicions as any other table in the casino would
892.
by gonvaled 13y ago
Parafrasing Clarke, "A sufficiently complex system is indistinguishable from magic". You, and nobody, will not notice small probabilistic variations. Whenever you discover it (let us say, 30 years from now), you will be told that
893.
by gonvaled 13y ago
Sorry, not convinced. All that control and regulation applies to more important parts of society, and it does not work (NSA). So, according to you, I, Mr. unbeatable hold'em player, can go to this machine, bet a million dollars and be
894.
by gonvaled 13y ago
You are joking, aren't you? You are telling me that nobody would program a secret algorithm, standing to win loads of money, to tilt the chances at the right moment? Because it is illegal !!!? Ohhh! Illegal! Surely nobody does illeg
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by gonvaled 13y ago
Well, exactly! I have three aces, and the computer has double pairs. We are in the turn. I go all in!!! The computer calls ... and deals itself a full house. I am bankrupt :( How do I know? How can I ever trust playing poker with a machine,
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by gonvaled 13y ago
Because we are not complete human beings! I mean, you don't assume that a non-american has the same human dignity as an american, do you? Foreigners are all terrorists anyway ...
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by gonvaled 13y ago
Well, that is the point. I leave my house every day, even though I know lots of bad things can happen to me, just because I am more or less in control of the risks. If one day I wake up hearing that people are randomly being being stabbed,
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by gonvaled 13y ago
"It is not paranoia if they really are out to get you" But I'll take your advice and visit my psychiatrist. In the meantime, no google helpouts for me. I mean, I can probably pass on this one. And on the next one. Why take an
899.
by gonvaled 13y ago
You do not get it, do you? A couple of months ago, the default was "I trust this company, unless I have evidence of the contrary". Now the default has radically changed: "I do not trust this company, unless I have very st
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by gonvaled 13y ago
If you are talking business, it can make sense: just profit from people who do not care about their privacy (lots of them out there). If you are talking personal use: why would I even be remotely interested in helping out that funny-looking

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